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" The moralist is the person who tells people that they ought to be unselfish, when they still feel like egos, and his efforts are always and invariably futile. "
Alan Watts
Feel
Who
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" Faith is a state of openness or trust. "
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" The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination. "
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" In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way. "
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" But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be. "
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" So then, the relationship of self to other is the complete realization that loving yourself is impossible without loving everything defined as other than yourself. "
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Yourself
" Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. "
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Yourself
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" I owe my solitude to other people. "
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Owe
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" And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on. "
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" The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance. "
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" What the devil is the point of surviving, going on living, when it's a drag? But you see, that's what people do. "
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Going
Devil
" We identify in our exerience a differentiation between what we do and what happens to us. "
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Us
Differentiation
" Saints need sinners. "
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Need
Saints
" Reality is only a Rorschach ink-blot, you know. "
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Know
Only
" No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "
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Future
Love
Work
" The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe. "
Alan Watts
Style
Universe
Church
" No valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now. "
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Future
Plans
Capacity
" If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly. "
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Will
You
Things
" Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe. "
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Process
Same
Technology
" The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity. "
Alan Watts
Idea
Duty
God
" We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain. "
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Without
More
Pain
" A myth is an image in terms of which we try to make sense of the world. "
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Sense
Myth
Make
" In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. "
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" Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them. "
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Born
" And although our bodies are bounded with skin, and we can differentiate between outside and inside, they cannot exist except in a certain kind of natural environment. "
Alan Watts
Natural
Inside
Environment
" Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it. "
Alan Watts
Whole
Life
Religion
" You don't look out there for God, something in the sky, you look in you. "
Alan Watts
Inspirational
Out
You
" So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level. "
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" But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything. "
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" But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is. "
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" To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float. "
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